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… slot Steering a running swarm meant switching into each pane and typing the same instruction N times. `harvest-step.sh broadcast` types one message (HERDR_SWARM_MESSAGE / _FILE, optional HERDR_SWARM_TARGETS) into every running slot's agent and submits it, via `pane send-text` + Enter — Herdr's `agent prompt` refuses plugin-reported panes (live-verified). Typing into the wrong program can run the message (a shell executes it, less runs `!…`, an approval dialog takes Enter as "yes"), so a slot gets it only when its pane still holds the slot's terminal, Herdr does not report it blocked, and the foreground group's LEADER is the slot's own agent program (agent_command, now recorded at fan-out). The program is rechecked between typing and Enter; Enter is withheld if it changed. Messages must be one line of plain text, validated in node independent of locale (newlines arrive as real line breaks, live-verified). Also shows elapsed time per slot (fan-out records started_at) in the status pane and compare view. Token/cost display is deferred: Herdr has no usage channel and no agent reports usage to it. An adversarial review found two high findings (typing into a non-agent program, keystrokes into an approval prompt) and four more; all fixed with tests, the leader check mutation-verified. Residuals are in docs/residual-review-findings/. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 🧰 Additional context used📚 Code guidelines (1)📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds guarded one-line broadcasts to running slots and records agent commands and slot start times. It also adds elapsed-time values to the status and comparison views. ChangesSlot operations
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant harvest-step.sh
participant scripts/lib.sh
participant HerdrPane
User->>harvest-step.sh: Provide message and optional slot targets
harvest-step.sh->>harvest-step.sh: Validate message and select targets
harvest-step.sh->>scripts/lib.sh: Check pane, status, and foreground program
scripts/lib.sh->>HerdrPane: Read pane and process information
harvest-step.sh->>scripts/lib.sh: Type message after checks pass
scripts/lib.sh->>HerdrPane: Send message text
harvest-step.sh->>scripts/lib.sh: Recheck foreground program, then submit Enter
scripts/lib.sh->>HerdrPane: Send Enter key
harvest-step.sh-->>User: Report sent, skipped, or partial results
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The changelog should accurately describe which agents can receive a broadcast. The remaining issue is limited to documentation and does not block merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟠 High · up to Broadcast may answer a pending approval prompt instead of delivering an instruction. Recipient checks also remain separate from submission, allowing intervening state changes. These risks can affect every running slot targeted by one command, despite substantial wrong-pane and malformed-input safeguards. Retained concerns
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- Around line 31-35: Update the `broadcast` changelog entry to state that
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| - `broadcast` harvest verb: types one single-line message into every running | ||
| slot's agent (or `HERDR_SWARM_TARGETS`) and submits it. A slot is only typed | ||
| into when its pane still holds the slot's terminal and a program, not the | ||
| shell, is in the foreground. Multi-line text, control characters, and a | ||
| leading `-` are refused. |
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State the actual foreground guard in the changelog.
This entry says that broadcast types into a slot when "a program, not the shell" is in the foreground. The code requires more than that. The foreground group leader must be the slot's recorded agent_command. The code also skips blocked slots and slots that exited. As written, a reader can think that a vim or less session in the foreground receives the message. Update the entry to match the code and the README.
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- into when its pane still holds the slot's terminal and a program, not the
- shell, is in the foreground. Multi-line text, control characters, and a
- leading `-` are refused.
+ into when its pane still holds the slot's terminal, Herdr does not report it
+ `blocked`, and the foreground group leader is the slot's own agent program
+ (`agent_command`, recorded at fan-out). Multi-line text, control
+ characters, and a leading `-` are refused.📝 Committable suggestion
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| - `broadcast` harvest verb: types one single-line message into every running | |
| slot's agent (or `HERDR_SWARM_TARGETS`) and submits it. A slot is only typed | |
| into when its pane still holds the slot's terminal and a program, not the | |
| shell, is in the foreground. Multi-line text, control characters, and a | |
| leading `-` are refused. | |
| - `broadcast` harvest verb: types one single-line message into every running | |
| slot's agent (or `HERDR_SWARM_TARGETS`) and submits it. A slot is only typed | |
| into when its pane still holds the slot's terminal, Herdr does not report it | |
| `blocked`, and the foreground group leader is the slot's own agent program | |
| (`agent_command`, recorded at fan-out). Multi-line text, control | |
| characters, and a leading `-` are refused. |
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Review comment at @CHANGELOG.md around lines 31 - 35:
Update the `broadcast` changelog entry to state that delivery skips blocked or
exited slots and requires the foreground group leader to match the slot’s
recorded `agent_command`; remove the broader claim that any foreground program
qualifies.
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main, not stacked.Why
Steering a running swarm meant switching into each pane and typing the same instruction N times, and nothing showed how long each slot had been running. This is item 6 of the roadmap.
What
harvest-step.sh broadcasttypes one message into every running slot's agent and submits it:HERDR_SWARM_MESSAGE="Also add tests for the edge cases, then commit." bash scripts/harvest-step.sh broadcastHERDR_SWARM_MESSAGE_FILE, andHERDR_SWARM_TARGETS=1,3(duplicates refused).broadcast_sent,broadcast_skippedwith the reason, andbroadcast_partial(typed but not submitted).Elapsed time per slot appears in the status pane and the compare view. Fan-out now records
started_at; older rows fall back to the run's start.Cost deferred, by decision. Herdr's
tokensfield is display metadata, not LLM usage, and no agent reports usage to Herdr. Showing cost would mean a column with nothing feeding it.Live-verified (throwaway named session, inherited
HERDR_*stripped)agent prompton a plugin-reported paneagent_not_readypane send-text+send-keys Entersend-textsend-text/send-keyssuccessSafety: typing into the wrong program can run the message
A shell executes it,
lessruns!…, and an approval dialog takes Enter as "yes". So right before typing, a slot must have:blocked;agent_command, recorded at fan-out;node …/codexmatchescodex);The program is rechecked between typing and Enter; if it changed, Enter is withheld (unsubmitted text is inert). Messages are refused for newlines, control and C1 characters, Unicode line separators, direction overrides, invalid UTF-8, or a leading
-. Validation runs in Node and is tested underLC_ALL=Cand UTF-8.An adversarial review found 2 high and 4 other findings (no data or git risk). All are fixed with tests, and the leader check is mutation-verified. Residuals, including that 0.7.5+ panes can't show
blockedand the narrowed-not-closed race:docs/residual-review-findings/broadcast-2026-10-04.md.Test plan
npm run validate: ShellCheck clean, 343 pass / 1 skipped (Linux-only) on macOStests/broadcast.test.mjs(10 tests): delivery order, every skip reason (blocked, shell, reused pane, foreign leader, exited, settled), interpreter-launched agent, pre-upgrade rows, Enter withheld on foreground change, partial on a failed Enter, unknown foreground, targets and duplicates, the message validator in two locales, message file incl. invalid UTF-8, elapsed-time mathagent_commandandstarted_at🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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